Today, I took the day off to go with my husband to San Francisco on BART to see Shen Yun. Coming out of the station, were two Elders at a Watchtower Cart! My husband loves to witness to them.
Started off with a smile and they smiled back and he told them he had been associated with Jehovah's Witnesses and now he is not but he wishes to tell them that even though they are going to hear things that are upsetting in the news, there is life after Jehovah's Witnesses.
They smiled and asked him if they could ask what religion he has gone to, or what he is doing now. My husband asked them if they ever heard of the Gnostic religion and explained to them that instead of light coming from an organization it came from within.
I am standing there thinking 'oh my God', but they keep listening. I started off by telling them that we had a pedophile in our congregation, and that the Fremont congregation hadn't even sent us a letter saying that he was good with kids. And because of the two witness rule, people did not think about what could happen two children outside of the congregation how pedophiles do not stop with one child, and many more people would get hurt if Elders did not report to the police.
Both of them looked at me and said we do report to the police now. I asked really? I look at JW org videos and I saw someone say we will never stop the two witness rule. It is okay if you have two witnesses but you also have to call the police to protect children. Again, they said we do call the police now.
I did explain to tell my husband was disfellowshipped for testifying against the Watchtower. My husband then repeated that there is life after Jehovah's Witnesses and even though you will be disturbed by what you hear there is life afterwards.
Ready for our next "ecart" (I don't know why I like to call it an ecart, but oh well) as we walk down the street to the War Memorial Building for our show. First, a yummy blue cheese hamburger at Gotts!!!